Michael Cera

Virgins in the movies tend to be pert blondes. Or they look like Jason Biggs, Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera. Adepero Oduye is what they almost never look like: a dark-skinned, strong-faced teenager. Oduye stars in "Pariah," about a 17-year-old Brooklyn lesbian named Alike Freeman. Alike - (it's pronounced "Ah-LEE-kay") - surveys the available peers and role models and more or less asks: Is this all there is? She's undersexed and wants to change that. But, like the boys in movies, she isn't sure how to pull it off. This is a movie that feels in all its vividness, specificity, and...

SUPERBAD ★★ (Comcast Movie Collections: Down & Out Comedies) In this comedy, two virgins - one's a lech (Jonah Hill), the other's a gentleman nerd (Michael Cera) - spend a night in pursuit of liquor and sex. Occasionally, this is funny. But it's also thoroughly entrenched in a retrograde adolescence that keeps slipping outside teen comedy into the territory of the horror film. "American Pie," as it tried to give its inexperienced lads some carnal knowledge, did the same thing: It turned sex into something you'd expect to see in "The Exorcist.

Jesse Eisenberg and Nick Swardson stopped by Sal's Pizza on Brookline Avenue yesterday to promote their new movie, "30 Minutes or Less. " The duo served up slices to a few dozen fans. The pair worked slowly, and looked generally uncomfortable with the pizza cutters. At one point, someone in the crowd piped up: "When you get an Academy Award nomination, do you get a certificate?" Eisenberg replied "yes," and added "you also get a hoodie. " The two actors later sat down for an interview at the Globe, where the snarky Swardson considered Eisenberg's sex appeal compared with Facebook founder Mark...

Hotel Rwanda 6 p.m. (FLIX) A hotel manager (Don Cheadle) tries to save civil-war refugees by hiding them. PG-13 (2004) Love Begins 6 p.m. (HALMRK) An adventurer (Wes Brown) pays off a debt by working on a farm owned by a young woman (Julie Mond). NR (2011) Toe to Toe 6 p.m. (SUND) A black scholarship student (Sonequa Martin) befriends a privileged white student. NR (2009) The Mating Game 6:15 p.m. (TCM) Tale of a farmer at odds with the IRS. Tony Randall. NR (1959)

JUNO (MAX on Comcast) Ellen Page is sensational as the title character, a pregnant 16-year-old planning to give her kid to yuppies Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman to adopt. The hyper-literate and very funny script by Diablo Cody and direction by Jason Reitman (“Thank You for Smoking’’) turn Juno’s journey into an arch human comedy about a teenager who knows everything except maturity. With Allison Janney, Michael Cera (pictured, with Page), and J.K. Simmons.

Childrens Hospital Midnight, Cartoon Network A sick show about healers! Rob Corddry (right, with Ken Marino) plays a creepy doctor who wears clown makeup in this former Web series, an offensive, juvenile, and hysterical comedy that sends up medical dramas from “ER’’ and “St. Elsewhere’’ to “Grey’s Anatomy.’’ The ensemble includes Megan Mullally as the sexed-up, crippled hospital chief, modeled after Kerry Weaver on “ER,’’ and Henry Winkler as Sy Mittleman, who owns the insurance company that owns the hospital.

Rushed into production to beat the threatened directors’ strike in May 2008, “Youth in Revolt’’ was made well before some of us started getting tired of watching Michael Cera play Michael Cera. Not that he’s bad at it - no one plays him nearly as well. It’s just that Cera doesn’t seem to be able to do anything else, and dorky, passive-aggressive, and adorable has turned into an awfully narrow niche. The actor is starting to seem like a multiplex virus, tainting every movie he’s in. When my daughters heard he was starring in an upcoming movie version of their favorite...

‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’’ may be as close as the movies will ever get to seeing the world through the eyes of an over-caffeinated 23-year-old man-boy playing retro video games on a handheld and listening to a jangle-core iPod playlist while waiting for his girlfriend in an all-night diner in a largish North American city. Which is to say that the movie is of this precise moment and you should probably see it now, since it will be dated by next Tuesday. The film, which has been directed by Edgar Wright, the cheeky British bad boy who gave us “Shaun of the Dead’’ and...

Virgins in the movies tend to be pert blondes. Or they look like Jason Biggs, Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera. Adepero Oduye is what they almost never look like: a dark-skinned, strong-faced teenager. Oduye stars in "Pariah," about a 17-year-old Brooklyn lesbian named Alike Freeman. Alike - (it's pronounced "Ah-LEE-kay") - surveys the available peers and role models and more or less asks: Is this all there is? She's undersexed and wants to change that. But, like the boys in movies, she isn't sure how to pull it off. This is a movie that feels in all its vividness, specificity, and...

The Black Stallion 6 p.m. (TCM) Tale of a boy (Kelly Reno) and a wild horse. G (1979) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride 6 p.m. (FAM) Dazzling stop-motion animated tale featuring the voice of Johnny Depp. PG (2005) Transformers 7 p.m., 10 p.m. (TBS) A teen helps transforming alien robots defend Earth from their invading enemies. Shia LaBeouf. PG-13 (2007) Zodiac 7:30 p.m., midnight (IFC) Chilling thriller about the search for the Zodiac Killer in San Francisco.

Jesse Eisenberg and Nick Swardson stopped by Sal's Pizza on Brookline Avenue yesterday to promote their new movie, "30 Minutes or Less. " The duo served up slices to a few dozen fans. The pair worked slowly, and looked generally uncomfortable with the pizza cutters. At one point, someone in the crowd piped up: "When you get an Academy Award nomination, do you get a certificate?" Eisenberg replied "yes," and added "you also get a hoodie. " The two actors later sat down for an interview at the Globe, where the snarky Swardson considered Eisenberg's sex appeal compared with Facebook founder Mark...

Childrens Hospital Midnight, Cartoon Network A sick show about healers! Rob Corddry (right, with Ken Marino) plays a creepy doctor who wears clown makeup in this former Web series, an offensive, juvenile, and hysterical comedy that sends up medical dramas from “ER’’ and “St. Elsewhere’’ to “Grey’s Anatomy.’’ The ensemble includes Megan Mullally as the sexed-up, crippled hospital chief, modeled after Kerry Weaver on “ER,’’ and Henry Winkler as Sy Mittleman, who owns the insurance company that owns the hospital.

‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’’ may be as close as the movies will ever get to seeing the world through the eyes of an over-caffeinated 23-year-old man-boy playing retro video games on a handheld and listening to a jangle-core iPod playlist while waiting for his girlfriend in an all-night diner in a largish North American city. Which is to say that the movie is of this precise moment and you should probably see it now, since it will be dated by next Tuesday. The film, which has been directed by Edgar Wright, the cheeky British bad boy who gave us “Shaun of the...